have some nostalgia for this from watching youtubers play it when it came out and i came back to it because of a recommendation from a friend. And I don't really know how to feel about it. I think the gameplay is very well designed, the individual character writing is really solid, and some of the moral choices are well set up, for example after finishing the first day and seeing that my entire family had trackers for if they were fed and healthy that depended on how much money I made I was like damn so it's going to be THAT kind of game. At the same time I think there's only so far you can go with this gimmick before it becomes too complicated and annoying so the complexity of the systems kind of plateau near the end. My biggest issue of all is that as a political statement it just has nothing to say, it uses this vague "eastern communist state" setting as set dressing and not much else. All it really had to offer was "this is a bad country and the border system turns lots of people away" repeated in different ways across 31 days; a reminder of that weird time in the mid 2010s where the american internet was obsessed with the soviet union for some reason. And I know that you're not supposed to feel like a good person but putting people in a scanner because they don't match up with the gender on their passport felt Very Bad to me, especially since it wasn't interrogated morally by the game the same way that other bad actions were. Idk, I can see why it's well liked but I don't feel especially motivated to try and get the rest of the endings.